chapter 05: identity: race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality

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1. barrioization defined by geographer james curtis as the 11. racism frequently referred to as a system or attitude
dramatic increase in hispanic population in a toward visible differences in individuals, racism
given neighborhood; referring to barrio, the is an ideology of difference that ascribes
spanish word for neighborhood (predominantly negative) significance and
meaning to culturally, socially, and politically
2. dowry in the context of arranged marriages in india,
constructed ideas based on phenotypical
death disputes over the price to be paid by the
features
family of the bride to the father of the groom
(the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led 12. residential defined by geographers douglas massey and
to the death of the bride segregation nancy denton as the degree to which two or
more groups live separately from one another,
3. ethnicity affiliation or identity within a group of people
in different parts of an urban environment
bound by common ancestry and culture
13. sense of state of mind derived through the infusion of a
4. gender social differences between men and women,
place place with meaning and emotion by
rather than the anatomical, biological
remembering important events that occurred in
differences between the sexes. notions of
that place or by labeling a place with a certain
gender differences—that is, what is considered
character
"feminine" or "masculine"—vary greatly over
time and space 14. space defined by doreen massey and pat jess as
"social relations stretched out"
5. gendered in terms of a place, whether the place is
designed for or claimed by men or women 15. succession process by which new immigrants to a city
move to and dominate or take over areas or
6. identifying constructing an identity by first defining the
neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant
against "other" and then defining ourselves as "not the
groups. for example, in the early twentieth
other"
century, puerto ricans "invaded" the immigrant
7. identity defined by geographer gillian rose as "how we jewish neighborhood of east harlem and
make sense of ourselves;" how people see successfully took over the neighborhood or
themselves at different scales "succeeded" the immigrant jewish population as
8. place the fourth theme of geography as defined by the dominant immigrant group in the
the geography educational national neighborhood
implementation project: uniqueness of a
location
9. queer theory defined by geographers glen elder,
theory lawrence knopp, and heidi nast that highlights
the contextual nature of opposition to the
heteronormative and focuses on the political
engagement of "queers" with the
heteronormative
10. race a categorization of humans based on skin
color and other physical characteristics. racial
categories are social and political
constructions because they are based on ideas
that some biological differences (especially
skin color) are more important than others
(e.g., height, etc.), even though the latter might
have more significance in terms of human
activity. with its roots in sixteenth-century
england, the term is closely associated with
european colonialism because of the impact of
that development on global understandings of
racial differences